Letter: Trump does not value national monuments

President Trump has issued an executive order threatening prison time for people who destroy monuments, memorials or statues. He accuses people who attack symbolic statuary of being “violent extremists.”Given this rhetoric, it’s impossible to forget that in December, 2017, Trump came to Utah for the express purpose of destroying two National Monuments — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.The National Monuments that Trump destroyed were created for specific reasons: